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Senate Bill No. 200-Committee on Finance

(On Behalf of the Budget Division of the
Department of Administration)

March 10, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Finance

SUMMARY--Makes appropriation to Division of State Parks of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for park improvement projects. (BDR S-1435)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Contains Appropriation included in Executive Budget.

EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to recreation; making an appropriation to the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for park improvement projects; extending the period of authorized expenditure for certain money previously appropriated for park facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1 There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources the sum of $1,566,393 for park improvement projects. The money must be used as follows:
1. Fort Churchill State Historic Park, $30,000
2. Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, $295,603
3. Spring Valley State Park, $258,338
4. Big Bend State Recreation Area, $192,191
5. Valley of Fire State Park, $49,096
6. Rye Patch State Recreation Area, $415,308
7. Lahontan State Recreation Area, $40,250
8. Floyd Lamb State Park, $35,607
9. To prepare a preliminary master plan to provide direction for the development and operation of a historic park in Las Vegas, $250,000.
Sec. 2 The State Controller shall provide for the payment of claims legally obligated in each fiscal year on behalf of the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the purposes set forth in section 1 of this act until the last Friday in August immediately following the end of the fiscal year 1998-1999.
Sec. 3 1. If a permissible expenditure is not sufficient to allow the completion of a project set forth in section 1 of this act, the Interim Finance Committee, upon request by the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, may increase the permissible expenditure for the project and correspondingly reduce the permissible expenditure for one or more other projects set forth in section 1 of this act.
2. The Interim Finance Committee, upon request by the Division of State Parks of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, may reduce the permissible expenditure of a project set forth in section 1 of this act and authorize the use of the amount saved for other improvements to facilities in state parks.
Sec. 4 Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by section 1 of this act must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 1999, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.
Sec. 5. Section 3 of chapter 201, Statutes of Nevada 1995, at page 339, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 3. The state controller shall provide for the payment of claims legally obligated in each fiscal year on behalf of the division of state parks of the state department of conservation and natural resources for the purposes set forth [in] :
1. In paragraphs (b) and (e) of subsection 1 and subsections 2 and 3 of section 2 of this act until the last Friday of [the] August immediately following the end of fiscal year 1996-97 [.] ; and
2. In paragraphs (a), (c), (d), (f) and (g) of subsection 1 of section 2 of this act until the last Friday of August immediately following the end of fiscal year 1998-99.
Sec. 6. Section 5 of chapter 201, Statutes of Nevada 1995, at page 340, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 5. Any remaining balance of the appropriations made by section 2 of this act :
1. For use as provided in paragraphs (b) and (e) of subsection 1 and subsections 2 and 3 of that section, must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 1997, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.
2. For use as provided in paragraphs (a), (c), (d), (f) and (g) of subsection 1 of that section, must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 1999, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.
Sec. 7. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1997.

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